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I was unwilling to make education the condition of suffrage; but I ask that it shall accompany and sustain suffrage.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “I was unwilling to make education the condition of suffrage; but I ask that it shall accompany and sustain suffrage.”
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Sumner expresses his belief that education should accompany suffrage.
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